American Exceptualism Rudy
Giuliani was espousing his opinion to Fox News that Barack Obama did not
love America and didn’t brag enough about “American Exceptionalism.”

Fur Is Not Chic When my 25-pound
dog stepped in a toothed steel leg hold trap a few ft off the trail, I
learned how “unchic” fur is. I had to carry her out two miles to get to a
vet.

Which Is More Dangerous? Just
a couple of thoughts I had in response to the letters by Gordon Lee
Dean and Jarin Weber in the Feb. 23 issue. Mr. Dean claims that there
have been zero deaths from the measles in the past ten years.

Real Action on Climate In
“Climate Madness” in the Feb. 9 issue, the writer points out that
scientists are all but unanimous and that large numbers of people agree:
global warming poses a threat to future generations.

Real Science Wolfgang
Pauli, the Nobel Prize winning Austrian-born theoretical physicist, was
known not only for his work in postulating the existence of the
neutrino but feared for his razor-edged humor.

Good sports turn to Jay’s

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And they carry a wide variety of familiar brand names, not knockoffs or private label items. Look along their shelves and racks and you’ll see familiar outdoor names like Carhartt, Woolrich, Bear Archery, Browning, Buck Knives, Coleman, Leatherman Tool, Minnkota, Remington, Shimano Under Armour and Winchester.

Fitness in a Different Form

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Morris started in the fitness industry in 2002 working as a trainer for Curves International. Around that time, she had lost a significant amount of weight, but she still felt like the same insecure person. At the age of 35, along with her 16-year-old daughter Adrian, Morris took her first belly dance class (Middle Eastern dance).

FeaturesRobert Downes
Killing 80 pig sows and their piglets in cold blood this spring to
comply with a controversial order from the Michigan Department of
Natural Resources was the toughest thing Dave Tuxbury has ever had to
do.

Little Traverse Museum exhibit tells Hemingway’s Story

While paying homage to the man considered to
be Michigan’s greatest writer, it’s worth noting that the organization
behind the Little Traverse History Museum has been around longer than
Ernest Hemingway himself.

Star on the Rise

Fresh from the recording studio with a brand-new hollow-body
Gretsch guitar strapped to her back, couldn’t be happier with the way
things are going with her music.

She’s been working on
her first CD since July and is currently enjoying the kind of
wordof-mouth buzz that is bringing her and a new generation of
singer-songwriters to the forefront of the music scene in Northern
Michigan.

Bluegrass phenom takes Northern Michigan music scene by storm

Billy Strings was practically born into bluegrass: his
mother’s water broke while she was attending a birthday party packed
with musicians and baby Billy was born with the echo of guitars and
banjos in his ears.

Either that or Billy made a deal
with a dark stranger at a lonely crossroads at midnight… Whatever the
case, he has an almost supernatural ability on guitar, banjo and
mandolin that has set the region’s bluegrass and folk scene on fire.

Jason Hulet’s mind-blowing video of a city in progress

What happens when you take more than 15,000 photos on a city street and spin them into a time lapse video?

For
real estate photographer Jason Hulet, the result is a surrealistic
portrait of a day in downtown Traverse City that has viewers on YouTube
and Facebook awestruck over its psychedelic colors and dreamlike
progression.

Scan the accompanying QR code with your smartphone or visit the Video Seen link at northernexpress.com to see for yourself.

DiningKristi Kates
“There has been a long-standing myth that The Rowe is an old cottage,” Webb says, “but it has always been a restaurant, and the name comes from the Rowes. Wes Westhoven bought the building in 1972, and brought the idea of ‘farm to table’ to Northern Michigan at that time.